DeeJayPip Reviews

The Breakfast Club (1985)

Watch Sixteen Candles instead (there may be spoilers)

[15 February 2004]

WARNING: There may be spoilers in this review...

OK, I admit that I'm not a child of the '80s. I don't know

anything about the '80s. But I DID watch Sixteen Candles and love it, so that doesn't mean I'm a retarded teenager who hates all '80s movies.

But I didn't like this movie. It was just an hour and half of listening to Bender insulting everyone. I admit that Allison was funny, but she just wasn't funny enough to save the movie. There were some other funny parts also, but overall... it just made no sense. Especially the couplings at the end. And Bender insulting everyone.

Please, for God's sake, if you want an Eighties movie, watch Sixteen Candles. If you want to watch a teen movie, watch Ten Things I Hate About You.

Love Is Never Silent (1985 TV Movie)

Wonderful, and sad...

[9/10 · 3 May 2003]

I watched this in my ASL class. I'm Deaf and fluent in ASL, but taking the class because I didn't want to take Spanish. This was such a wonderful movie, and it made me cry like a baby at the end... and I never cry at movies! I've seen about five thousand films, and the only other one to make me cry was Exorcist, but this is much more sad.

Though my situation is the exact opposite of the girl in this movie (I'm Deaf child of Hearing parents) it was still very profound. It also wasn't offending to the Hearing people in my class, so that is a plus for any Hearing person looking at this movie.

If it comes on TV, tape it. You will not regret it.

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)

Deaf Person's Review

[19 February 2003]

OK, I'm Deaf. There are no subtitles in this movie. Usually, I would turn it off after five minutes because there was too much talking.

But this was different... it was hillarious even without dialogue. The hearing person I was watching it with told me that I could make up my own dialogue and it would be better. Now, I don't know how true that is, but any movie that I can watch without subtitles is a 10 in my book.

Hillarious. :)

That's So Raven (2003–2007)

There are better Disney Shows

[2 February 2003]

I'm not in UK, so I've only watched few episodes.

It's better than some disney shows, but still, there are better shows. Namely: Lizzie McGuire (New episodes) and Boy Meets World.

The thing that annoys me is how stupid Chelsea is. Nobody who is that age is THAT stupid. And come on... the smelly kid? Come on!

Interesting concept, but bad excecution. At least it's better than stuff like The Jersey.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Depends on what you're looking for

[9/10 · 21 December 2002]

Your enjoyment of this will depend on what you're looking for. If you're looking for a movie that is almost exactly like the book, don't go to this movie.

If you're just looking for a great movie, go to this movie.

Getting There (2002 Video)

don't watch this

[1/10 · 25 November 2002]

What, do they hate Utah so much that they don't want to get there, and stall in every possible way? This movie is so stupid. I mean, come on, they don't allow snowboarding at Deer Valley... and Stein Erickson is NOT a "not too shabby" place. It is one of the most expensive places in Utah. SPOILER and the twins aren't too concerned that they got there on the last day of the olympics. END SPOILER

Nobody should be forced to watch this movie

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Great!

[8/10 · 19 November 2002]

This movie is definitely worth seeing. (slight spoilers) Though it might be similar to Matrix, it focuses more on the simulation than on the real world. For example, in Matrix, the agents moved in and out of people's bodies, and we didn't see the consequences of that -- anybody in the Matrix was an enemy. In here, we see how that negatively affects the simulation's lives. Though I found it somewhat easy to predict, that didn't detract my enjoyment of the film. It is also multi-layered, so physicists will have fun with this, while ordinary people can understand most of it. However, it suffers from being too similar to some other movies.

8 out of 10

Crossroads (I) (2002)

Okay

[6/10 · 13 November 2002]

Don't get me wrong--usually I loathe Brittney Spears, but this movie was better than I expected. Sure, there were some stupid parts, but if you just take them with a pinch of salt, they're really funny...

Though I would recommend fast forwarding the movie at the end, when they sing.

All in all, a pretty average movie.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The worst movie I've seen.

[7/10 · 19 October 2002]

First off, I realize this might have been HUGE way back in 1968, but why say "2001"? Why not make it timeless or something? Come on, H.G. Wells was smart enough to set Time Machine further into the future than 24 years later. Other than that, it was way too slow. I ended up fast forwarding it, going two times the usual speed to read the subtitles, though there turned out to be not very much talking. The astronauts even walked in baby steps. Here is my summary of this movie:

*MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS*

We watch half an hour of gorrilas screeching. Then they find a black slab, which leads to more screeching and they take twenty minutes to realize that they can kill. Then we go to space, where we watch spaceships move around very very slowly, so that we know that this is exactly what the future will be like -- whoops, not quite. The people find another black thing on the moon. Then randomly, we see some people on a spaceship that is en route to Jupiter. Alright, whatever. HAL, which consists of red camera lenses planted around the ship, kills everyone except for one person. This one person unplugs HAL, which makes a TV tell him that the black rock on the moon is sending radio beams to Jupiter. The directors put in an intermission to make things go slower.

Then we see a black rock float in the solar system, then we see about half an hour of the survivor go through a tunnel of light, and we discover Jupiter is just South Utah, tinted different colors. The survivor lands in a white room. He's older, maybe now he's fifty? Then he sees a seventy year old eating at the table. The seventy year old looks back, the fifty year old is gone. Then he looks at the bed, and there is a horribly old old man there, who looks at the table. He sees a black rock, which turns him into a fetus. The fetus looks at Earth.

All of this is about two hours.

*END SPOILERS*